Alert archive / Arkansas / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2008
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 162
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Apr 4, 2008, 3:55 AM CDT for 4 states. It was in force for 7 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 4, 2008, 3:55 AM CDT (08:55 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 4, 2008, 11:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 7 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 59 counties
Arkansas County, AR, Ashley County, AR, Bradley County, AR, Calhoun County, AR, Chicot County, AR, Clark County, AR, Cleveland County, AR, Columbia County, AR, Dallas County, AR, Desha County, AR, Drew County, AR, Grant County, AR, Hempstead County, AR, Hot Spring County, AR, Howard County, AR, Jefferson County, AR, Lafayette County, AR, Lincoln County, AR, Little River County, AR, Miller County, AR, Nevada County, AR, Ouachita County, AR, Pike County, AR, Sevier County, AR, Union County, AR, Bienville Parish, LA, Bossier Parish, LA, Caddo Parish, LA, Claiborne Parish, LA, De Soto Parish, LA, East Carroll Parish, LA, Jackson Parish, LA, Lincoln Parish, LA, Morehouse Parish, LA, Ouachita Parish, LA, Red River Parish, LA, Union Parish, LA, Webster Parish, LA, West Carroll Parish, LA, Bolivar County, MS, Grenada County, MS, Leflore County, MS, Sunflower County, MS, Washington County, MS, Bowie County, TX, Camp County, TX, Cass County, TX, Franklin County, TX, Gregg County, TX, Harrison County, TX, Marion County, TX, Morris County, TX, Panola County, TX, Red River County, TX, Rusk County, TX, Smith County, TX, Titus County, TX, Upshur County, TX, Wood County, TX
The radar
The Shreveport radar (KSHV), 73 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:54 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
Warnings issued inside it
19 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 4, 4:16 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Hempstead, Little River, Miller | 44 min |
| Apr 4, 4:27 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LZK | Arkansas, Clark, Cleveland, Dallas, Grant, Jefferson and 5 more | 3 hr |
| Apr 4, 5:00 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Columbia, Hempstead, Lafayette, Miller, Nevada | 60 min |
| Apr 4, 5:35 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Bowie, Cass, Morris | 40 min |
| Apr 4, 5:53 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SHV | Howard, Little River, Sevier | 6 hr |
| Apr 4, 5:58 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LZK | Clark, Garland, Grant, Hot Spring, Lonoke, Montgomery and 3 more | 3 hr |
| Apr 4, 6:05 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Carroll, Grenada, Leflore, Montgomery, Webster | 25 min |
| Apr 4, 6:26 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LZK | Arkansas, Bradley, Calhoun, Cleveland, Dallas, Desha and 3 more | 3 hr |
| Apr 4, 6:41 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Bradley, Calhoun | 49 min |
| Apr 4, 7:24 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Cherokee, Nacogdoches, Rusk | 51 min |
| Apr 4, 7:28 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LZK | Arkansas, Clark, Cleveland, Dallas, Grant, Jefferson and 5 more | 3 hr |
| Apr 4, 8:07 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SHV | Nacogdoches, Panola, Rusk, Shelby | 3 hr |
| Apr 4, 8:38 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | JAN | Ashley, Chicot | 6 hr |
| Apr 4, 8:53 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | De Soto, Sabine | 52 min |
| Apr 4, 9:16 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | De Soto, Natchitoches, Red River, Sabine | 44 min |
| Apr 4, 9:41 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Bienville, Grant, Jackson, Natchitoches, Winn | 49 min |
| Apr 4, 10:16 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | East Carroll, Madison, Morehouse, Richland, West Carroll | 44 min |
| Apr 4, 10:29 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Caldwell, Jackson, Ouachita | 46 min |
| Apr 4, 10:49 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | East Carroll, Madison | 56 min |
Discussions around it
SPC mesoscale discussions over the same counties from four hours before the watch to its end.
The nearest sounding before it
Shreveport, LA (KSHV), launched 00:00Z, 8.9 hours before the alert went out and 67 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 1498 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -44 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1191 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 48 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 125 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 142 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.1
- Supercell composite
- 6.5
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 3, 7:59 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baxter, Benton, Boone, Calhoun, Carroll, Clark and 46 more | 91 min |
| Apr 3, 8:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Arkansas, Baxter, Benton, Boone, Calhoun, Carroll and 52 more | 8 hr |
| Apr 3, 9:49 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Arkansas, Baxter, Boone, Clark, Clay, Cleburne and 55 more | 86 min |
| Apr 3, 10:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Clay, Craighead, Crittenden, Cross, Greene, Lawrence and 6 more | 4 hr |
| Apr 3, 11:19 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Arkansas, Calhoun, Clark, Clay, Cleburne, Cleveland and 45 more | 86 min |
| Apr 4, 12:48 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bradley, Calhoun, Columbia, Hempstead, Lafayette, Little River and 4 more | 117 min |
| Apr 4, 1:28 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Crittenden, Lee | 2 hr |
| Apr 4, 2:46 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Lee, Phillips | 8 hr |
| Apr 4, 3:34 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Arkansas, Ashley, Bradley, Calhoun, Chicot, Clark and 15 more | 56 min |
| Apr 4, 7:55 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Ashley, Chicot | 2 hr |
| Apr 4, 5:34 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Natchitoches, Sabine | 6 hr |
| Apr 4, 9:48 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Acadia, Allen, Avoyelles, Beauregard, Calcasieu, Caldwell and 23 more | 9 hr |
| Apr 4, 4:06 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Acadia, Allen, Beauregard, Calcasieu, Evangeline, Jefferson Davis and 1 more | 84 min |
| Apr 4, 5:02 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Ascension, Assumption, East Baton Rouge, East Feliciana, Iberville, Jefferson and 16 more | 88 min |
| Apr 4, 5:48 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Ascension, Assumption, East Baton Rouge, East Feliciana, Iberville, Jefferson and 14 more | 6 hr |
| Apr 4, 5:16 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Alcorn, Itawamba, Prentiss, Tippah, Tishomingo, Union | 89 min |
| Apr 4, 12:01 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Amite, Clarke, Copiah, Covington, Forrest, Franklin and 18 more | 89 min |
| Apr 3, 8:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Archer, Baylor, Clay, Collin, Cooke, Delta and 13 more | 9 hr |
| Apr 4, 1:22 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Bandera, Bell, Blanco, Bosque, Brown, Burnet and 47 more | 9 hr |
| Apr 4, 4:14 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Anderson, Bandera, Bastrop, Bell, Bexar, Blanco and 48 more | 91 min |
Nearby
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Sources
The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.